Frank Pecora

Frank Pecora (8 August 1930-12 June 2017) was a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2 January 1979 to 30 November 1994, succeeding Thomas M. Nolan and preceding Jim Gerlach.

Biography
Frank Pecora was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1930, and he was first elected to the State Senate in 1979. He was a moderate member of the Republican Party, and, upset with the Republicans' reapportionment decision, Pecora switched party affiliation to the Democratic Party in 1992. Pecora ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives in a predominantly Democratic area, but he was soundly defeated by the Republican candidate Rick Santorum. He retired from politics in 1994, and he died in 2017.